Hey Cursor Team, As I build my history of working with Cursor, especially the chat interface, I find myself wanting to give my individual chats a name (essentially be able to edit what shows up in the tab at the top). Perhaps this can be possible sometime. I could see it being useful in the contex…

Awesome, I missed that. Thank you.

Feature request for product/service Cursor IDE Describe the request add the option to manually name a tab, I see that currently the option is only available through “Show Chat History” but this is not as convenient, since you want to name the tab when you are working. this will make referencing th…

Hello! In support and justification of the request, which was considered resolved, but I believe that the proposed solution is not obvious and not convenient enough: Feature Request: Allow Manual or Programmatic Setting of Chat Tab Titles It is not possible to change the chat header in a convenien…

Hey, you have the option to change the chat name. To do this, you need to open the history window. [image]

Deanrie, I’m sorry, but I insist that this is not the most convenient and obvious way… If you don’t believe me, ask the AI)) I’ve been using various programs for many years, and for various reasons, I really want Cursor to be perfect. And I’m a perfectionist - when using it for a long time, I may st…

Not going to lie, this is a crazy UI choice. We used to be able to right click on the tab of a chat and rename it which is intuitive. This is very counterintuitive. Why would you remove the rename option from the right click menu?

Change the Chat Name

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deanrie (Dean Rie) June 19, 2025, 3:48pm 2

Hey, you can actually do this by opening the chat history window.

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Feature Request: Allow Manual or Programmatic Setting of Chat Tab Titles

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Change the Chat Name

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